Normally, I’d expect an email press release notifying us of the winners of this year’s Origins Awards (copied below). Had to search them out myself, instead. Congrats to all the winners, which include Classic Battletech as Best Miniatures Game, and Aces & Eights for Best Roleplaying Game. There’s some great
Month: June 2008
Free RPG Day 2009 announced
The date for next year’s Free RPG Day has been decided – June 20, 2009. As with any event of this scale, this year’s event had its strong points and not so strong points, as some of you have already mentioned. We’ll discuss our observations of this year’s event in
Sean K. Reynolds joins Paizo
Paizo Publishing announced today the hiring of Sean K. Reynolds, well known in the D&D community for his work on the 3rd Edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and Monster Manual. Reynolds will be working as a developer on the Pathfinder and Pathfinder Chronicles adventure lines. The full release is below.
Ticket to Ride on Xbox Live today
First the extremely successful boardgame, then the recent card game, and now Days of Wonder‘s Ticket to Ride has been translated over to Xbox Live. I’m not sure the award-winning game (which took the Spiel Des Jahres ’04 and an Origins Award in ’05, to name a couple) is fully
Audio report – Free RPG Day 2008 is upon us!
In our latest episode, we talk with special guest Aldo Ghiozzi of Impressions and Free RPG Day about this Saturday’s second annual event. In just one year, the participating publishers have multiplied, and Aldo tells us both what to look for at local stores, and what it has taken to
Audio Report – The pre-game jitters
A bit before this whole 4e thing, Mike and our old friend Chris picked apart what could’ve been a much better prelaunch marketing push, especially from the retailer point of view. Then Mike and I discussed several other recent industry news bits, including the Upper Deck layoffs and the latest
Today’s RPG Zen koan, with oregano on the side
“If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books.” The question, grasshopper: if this makes you laugh instead of cry, have you been spending too much time on RPG forum sites, or too little?
WizKids cuts everything but HeroClix and card models by year’s end?
So WizKids is moving its offices to Topps’ location in NY, “focusing” on just a few lines, and by year’s end, “aligning its staff with its product portfolio.” Uhh… good times. Rumors still abound that MechWarrior has life ahead of it, but you’ll note that it isn’t in the list
D&D 4e GSL surfaces
The long-awaited Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Game System License is finally available. The potential red flag of the Quality and Standards clause is still there, broad as all outdoors, and Wizards seems to be giving itself the right to sue any licensee and hand them the legal bills, regardless
Amber creator Erick Wujcik passes away
Known for the Amber Diceless RPG and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, as well as his contributions to several other systems, Erick Wujcik, 57, passed away last Saturday after struggling with pancreatic and liver cancer. An excellent tribute and obituary by Kevin Siembieda of Palladium Books tells of
Suddenly, D&D4’s launch marketing makes terrible sense
“In the new edition of the game, people who employ excessive secrecy are likely to be followers of Vecna.”
D&D 4th Edition ships without the thing everyone thinks it is
Well, okay, what everyone seemed to think it would be, back when 4E was first announced with all the tantalizing screenshots and online play noise. I guess we can give WotC PR due credit for successfully reassuring the world that D&D would, in fact, continue to be playable on un-augmented,